692 Fighting Mountain Customs
When Motoji saw a large number of plundering artillery chariots attacking, he immediately ordered kamikaze commandos to attack the plundering artillery chariots.
Fifty cars immediately slaughtered the plundering artillery chariots, and the speed of the chariots was much faster than the plundering artillery chariots, which gave the illusion that the Japanese soldiers could easily defeat the plundering artillery chariots.
The crew of the plundering artillery chariot had long been prepared for these Japanese cars, and in order to fight these cars, they did not use the main gun, because at this time the predatory artillery chariot only had a simple optical rangefinder, no two-way stabilizer, and when the tank was moving, the muzzle of the gun was shaking all the time, so it did not have the ability to hit the enemy while on the move, and even if the main gun was used, the shells might not be able to hit the target.
So the artillery and combat vehicles of the invasion used machine guns, machine guns fired a lot of bullets, the probability of hitting the Japanese cars is very high, the Japanese cars are civilian, the body has no bulletproof armor at all, can not block machine gun bullets at all, some machine gun bullets pierced the front windshield, the driver was directly killed, the whole car lost control, or crashed into a tree, exploded and caught fire, or because of rolling over the stone turned over.
Some machine gun bullets directly pierced the engine, and the bullets directly detonated the gasoline in the engine, and the exploding gasoline blew up the car...... The exchange of fire between the artillery vehicles and the Japanese cars had only been going on for half an hour, and the Japanese cars were reduced to 50 regiments of burning scrap metal.
Seeing the defeat of his kamikaze commando team, and knowing that he could not fight against the invaded artillery chariots, Motoji ordered his subordinates to retreat to Changli Castle and prepare to hold on to Changli Castle.
The second brigade of the Japanese army retreated to Changli in a hurry, but did not expect that the invaded artillery and chariots had been outflanked from the back and the left and right flanks, and the battle area was all plains, so the Japanese soldiers had no terrain that could be used to cover, and could only be slaughtered by the invading artillery chariots, and soon the Japanese formation was divided into pieces by the invading artillery chariots.
Seeing this, there was no way but to order the troops to disperse and break through, but when he broke through, he encountered the infantry regiment of the first armored division that was mobile in a truck, and was intercepted by the infantry regiment for a while, with heavy casualties, and the remnants retreated to Changli in a hurry.
When the Japanese army fled towards Changli, the 1st Panzer Division was picking up the surrounded Japanese soldiers and did not care about the pursuit, so some of the Japanese soldiers withdrew to Changli, and the mountain Genji was among them.
When the Japanese army arrived in Changli, they were about to enter the city, but they found that the city gate was closed, and Yamachi Motoji hurriedly ordered his subordinates to go and call for the city gate to be opened.
A Japanese soldier ran to the gate and shouted in Japanese, "Hurry up and open the gate." ”
The city wall of Changli is only five or six meters high, and the people above can hear it clearly when they shout on the ground, but the Japanese soldier shouted more than a dozen times in a row, but he still did not see anyone open the city gate, and he did not even see anyone on the city wall.
At this moment, suddenly there was a gunshot on the head of the city, and then I saw countless Huaxia Army soldiers appear on the city, and shot at the people of Yuanzhi in the mountains below, it turned out that the 900th Division of the Huaxia Army, taking advantage of the bloody battle between the second brigade and the first armored division, forcibly marched more than 50 kilometers and rushed to the city of Changli, at this time Changli City was almost an empty city, so the Huaxia Army took Changli without much effort, and then began to wait quietly for the Japanese army.
The people of Yuanzhi in the mountains were shot indiscriminately, with many casualties, and fled in a hurry, they had nowhere to go but to temporarily retreat to Shanhaiguan.
At this time in Shanhaiguan, the general of the defenders was still Li Yuanhong, and after the Japanese army helped Li Yuanhong capture Changli, Li Yuanhong was not willing to be the vanguard of Japan's attack on China, so he stayed in Shanhaiguan.
At this time, Li Yuanhong had already seen the situation very clearly, China, Japan, Russia, the Qing Dynasty, and the coalition forces of more than a dozen countries, no one may be able to win anyone, rather than choosing a team now, it is better to support the army and respect itself, in the troubled times, the gun is the king.
Yamachi Genji led the remnants to walk all night, and did not rush to Shanhaiguan until dawn, and came to Shanhaiguan to count the number of people, and found that there were only more than 500 people left, and the number of the second brigade plus kamikaze commandos and other troops reached 7,000 people, but under the blow of the invaded artillery chariots, there were only more than 500 people left.
The 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade were defeated one after another, which also declared the fiasco of the 1st Division, and the elite 1st Division of the Japanese Army was vulnerable to the invasion of artillery and chariots, and more than 10,000 people were annihilated.
Yamachi Genji was embarrassed and angry, returned to the room alone, unbuttoned his clothes, drew his katana, and planned to commit suicide by seppuku, but at this moment, a dense gunfire suddenly rang out outside the station.
Mountain Yuanzhi was shocked, could it be said that the Huaxia army had already entered the city?
Shandi Yuanzhi put away his command knife and came outside, only to see a large group of Qing soldiers rushing into the courtyard with great momentum, and the person at the head was Li Yuanhong.
Shandi Yuanzhi hurriedly fastened his clothes and took them out, came to Li Yuanhong, and asked, "General Li Yuanhong, what are you going to do here?" ”
Li Yuanhong waved his hand violently and roared loudly: "Come on, take down the mountain Yuanzhi for me." ”
The Qing soldiers were divided left and right, surrounding the mountain Yuanzhi in the core, and several Qing soldiers rushed to the front of the mountain Yuanzhi, grabbed the mountain Yuanzhi's arms, twisted them to his back, and was so angry that the mountain Yuanzhi roared: "Li Yuanhong, what are you doing, why are you arresting me?" I am your ally, and our Empire of Japan is a friend of your Qing Dynasty. ”
Li Yuanhong sneered, "Mountain Yuanzhi, I have already decided, I will go to Lin Fei, you are the stepping stone for me to earn glory and wealth from Lin Fei, come on, take Mountain Yuanzhi away for me." Then the Qing army in the city began to capture the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers were either killed or captured.
Li Yuanhong wanted to take refuge in Lin Fei, but he was not sincere, he had his own wishful thinking, that is, he used this army in his hands as a bargaining chip, between China and the great powers, and quietly strengthened his own power.
Li Yuanhong didn't move his head to think about it, what did Lin Fei do, since Lin Fei fought the world, all countries were in Lin Fei's calculations, Li Yuanhong wanted to calculate Lin Fei, isn't that looking for abuse?
Li Yuanhong captured the mountain Yuanzhi, and then sent a special envoy to meet with Lei Guang, the commander of the 1st Armored Division, to explain Li Yuanhong's idea of defecting to Lin Fei.
Lei Guang was only a campaign commander and had no right to decide on this kind of strategic issue, so Lei Guang reported the news to Li Mingming, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Theater of Operations, who heard that Li Yuanhong, the general of Shanhaiguan, was planning to revolt, and did not dare to make a decision, so he sent a telegram to Lin Fei's desk.
Lin Fei swept the telegram and immediately instructed: "Regardless of whether Li Yuanhong is sincere or not, in short, Li Yuanhong can use it, use Li Yuanhong to take Shanhaiguan, and after taking Shanhaiguan, if Li Yuanhong is obedient, he will keep it, and if Li Yuanhong is disobedient, he will get rid of it." ”
Lin Fei's instructions were sent back to Li Ming's hands, and Li Mingming immediately forwarded the instructions to Lei Guang, who saw Lin Fei's instructions and immediately asked people to send a letter to Li Yuanhong, asking Li Yuanhong to lead the troops to withdraw from Shanhaiguan, hand over the defense of Shanhaiguan to the Huaxia Army, and hand over all the troops under Li Yuanhong's command to the Huaxia Army for reorganization.
When Li Yuanhong saw this news, he understood the meaning of the Huaxia Army, he was shocked, he didn't expect Lin Fei to be so fierce, not only to take Shanhaiguan away, but also to take his army away.
Shanhaiguan is an important political capital in Li Yuanhong's hands, and he does not want to hand over Shanhaiguan to Huaxia under any circumstances, as for the reorganization of the troops, as soon as the reorganization of the troops is completed, it will become Huaxia's army, and Li Yuanhong cannot agree to it under any circumstances.
So Li Yuanhong shirked and said: "Our department has been stationed in Shanhaiguan for a long time, and now the Japanese army is stationed outside Shanhaiguan, so we hope that we will guard Shanhaiguan." ”
Lei Guang reported Li Yuanhong's reaction all the way to Lin Fei's desk, Lin Fei pondered for a moment, and issued a secret order to Lei Guang, if the Japanese army attacks Shanhaiguan, you must not rescue Li Yuanhong's department, and when the Japanese army and Li Yuanhong's department are both defeated, you will attack again and directly kill the Japanese army and Li Yuanhong's department. ”
Lin Fei issued this secret order, and asked Lei Guang to send the mountain Yuanzhi to Beijing, in Beijing for a public trial, the mountain Yuanzhi is the culprit of the Lushun massacre, the public trial of the mountain Yuanzhi has attracted the attention of all countries in the world, the public trial was personally presided over by Li Mingming, under his auspices, the Chinese Imperial Court sentenced the mountain Yuanzhi to death for crimes against humanity, and immediately executed.
On June 27, Yuanzhi Shandi was publicly executed in Beijing, and the famous Japanese army general of Lin Fei's era ended his life stained red by the blood of the Chinese.
On June 28, the Japanese army's second and third divisions began to move towards Shanhaiguan, preparing to launch an attack, Li Yuanhong saw the Japanese attack, and planned to preserve the strength of the Huaxia army and the Japanese army, so he asked Lei Guang: "All my troops should withdraw from Shanhaiguan, because the Huaxia army is well-equipped and has strong combat capability, so the Huaxia army will defend Shanhaiguan." ”
Lei Guang had already prepared for Li Yuanhong's move, and he politely refused Li Yuanhong's request under the pretext that the Huaxia Army's weapons and ammunition needed to be replenished, so that Li Yuanhong would not be cannon fodder for the Huaxia Army, and immediately ordered all the troops to withdraw from Shanhaiguan and go to the mountains northwest of Shanhaiguan to rest and recuperate.
When Lei Guang learned of this news and realized that the time had come, on 29 June, when the first Li Yuanhong division withdrew from Shanhaiguan, Lei Guang ordered the 1st Regiment of the 1st Armored Division to surround it, confiscate all its weapons for desertion, and dismiss it on the spot.
When Li Yuanhong heard the news, he immediately understood that he thought he was smart, but he had not calculated Lin Fei at all, he had already let Lin Fei calculate, and now there were only two ways in front of him, either to fight with Lin Fei or surrender Lin Fei completely.